To show folks some of the damage that Meadowlands parks and natural areas sustained from Hurricane Sandy, the Meadowlands Commission has put together this quick video. (This is the video shown at Wednesday night's BCAS program in the Meadowlands Environment Center.)
In the instance of DeKorte Park, we also showed some photos of the park after 400 tons of debris -- largely dead Phragmites stalks, known as wrack -- were removed. After these photos were taken, similar progress has been made in Harrier Meadow.
Once the "heavy lifting" is done and a park is deemed safe enough, we will begin volunteer cleanups. Scroll down for more info on how to volunteer.
To read Michael Copley's article in The Record today about the extent of the damage, click here.
Note that some of the photos are of DeKorte after the storm, but before and after hundreds of tons of phragmites were removed!
Thanks.
Posted by: Jim Wright | November 16, 2012 at 01:23 PM
Some of those areas don't look so bad - but to be fair, I'm not sure what they looked like before. Still, it's evident that Sandy hit hard.
Posted by: Brandon McBride | November 16, 2012 at 01:13 PM